> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dominique Unruh wrote: > > > > Don't we need support for UCS-2 encoded files? > > > > UCS-2 encoded TeX code is not feasible, since TeX assumes e.g. that \ > > is a single byte, not a sequence. > > My question was rather tricky: I don't think people should bother > creating something that is already there (viz. Omega)... as i already said, the reason i want utf8 into latex (rather than into lambda-or-whatever-it-becomes) is is to deal with a problem we have *today*. i believe it's no more than a stopgap, but equally, i believe it's important. robin